180g Double LP Re-mastered by Sean Magee at Abbey Road Studios! Pressed at Pallas in Germany!
To call Nina Simone a jazz singer is to neglect the depth and range of her artistry. A classical pianist, folk singer, protest singer, and songwriter, her arrangements are harmonically rich, varied, and rhythmically experimental, while her voice can go from lounge singer-smooth to raw and exposed in the space of a verse.
The tracks on Sides 1 & 2 comprise 1961's masterful Forbidden Fruit album. While no session information exists to confirm this, Schackman, Hamilton and White were likely accompanying Nina when she recorded the eleven songs that comprise Sides 3 & 4, seven of which are from the small archive of previously unreleased tracks left in the Colpix vaults; and four of which were included on the Nina's final Colpix release, 1963's "Nina Simone With Strings.
On Forbidden Fruit, Nina Simone sings of people in love--and of the circumstances that sometimes keep them from it. While some of the songs are conventional--in the sense that their melodies are haunting and in the love song tradition--others are concerned more with the realities of troubled love. In the latter category, for example, are "Rags and Old Iron", "Gin House Blues", "Work Song" and "Forbidden Fruit". This album, more that ever, proves Nina's amazing versatility, and stamps her again as one of the great talents of our time.
Recorded in New York City, 1961.
Features:
180g Vinyl
Pressed at Pallas in Germany
Double LP
Limited Edition
Re-mastered by Sean Magee at Abbey Road Studios
Gatefold Jacket
Musicians:
Nina Simone, piano, vocals
Al Schackman, guitar
Chris White, bass
Bob Hamilton, drums
Selections:
LP1 - Side One:
1. Rags and Old Iron
2. No Good Man
3. Gin House Blues
4. I'll Look Around
5. I Love to Love
LP1 - Side Two:
1. Work Song
2. Where Can I Go Without You
3. Just Say I Love Him (English Version)
4. Memphis In June
5. Forbidden Fruit
LP2 - Side Three:
1. Porgy I Is Your Woman Now
2. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
3. Gimme A Pigfoot
4. Ev'rytime We Say Goodbye
5. Spring Is Here
6. Lonesome Valley
LP2 - Side Four:
1. Golden Earrings
2. My Ship
3. 'Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do
4. Try A Little Tenderness
5. Od Yesh Homa
To call Nina Simone a jazz singer is to neglect the depth and range of her artistry. A classical pianist, folk singer, protest singer, and songwriter, her arrangements are harmonically rich, varied, and rhythmically experimental, while her voice can go from lounge singer-smooth to raw and exposed in the space of a verse.
The tracks on Sides 1 & 2 comprise 1961's masterful Forbidden Fruit album. While no session information exists to confirm this, Schackman, Hamilton and White were likely accompanying Nina when she recorded the eleven songs that comprise Sides 3 & 4, seven of which are from the small archive of previously unreleased tracks left in the Colpix vaults; and four of which were included on the Nina's final Colpix release, 1963's "Nina Simone With Strings.
On Forbidden Fruit, Nina Simone sings of people in love--and of the circumstances that sometimes keep them from it. While some of the songs are conventional--in the sense that their melodies are haunting and in the love song tradition--others are concerned more with the realities of troubled love. In the latter category, for example, are "Rags and Old Iron", "Gin House Blues", "Work Song" and "Forbidden Fruit". This album, more that ever, proves Nina's amazing versatility, and stamps her again as one of the great talents of our time.
Recorded in New York City, 1961.
Features:
180g Vinyl
Pressed at Pallas in Germany
Double LP
Limited Edition
Re-mastered by Sean Magee at Abbey Road Studios
Gatefold Jacket
Musicians:
Nina Simone, piano, vocals
Al Schackman, guitar
Chris White, bass
Bob Hamilton, drums
Selections:
LP1 - Side One:
1. Rags and Old Iron
2. No Good Man
3. Gin House Blues
4. I'll Look Around
5. I Love to Love
LP1 - Side Two:
1. Work Song
2. Where Can I Go Without You
3. Just Say I Love Him (English Version)
4. Memphis In June
5. Forbidden Fruit
LP2 - Side Three:
1. Porgy I Is Your Woman Now
2. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
3. Gimme A Pigfoot
4. Ev'rytime We Say Goodbye
5. Spring Is Here
6. Lonesome Valley
LP2 - Side Four:
1. Golden Earrings
2. My Ship
3. 'Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do
4. Try A Little Tenderness
5. Od Yesh Homa
